Re: [xep-support] column spanning and spacing properties

From: Alexander Peshkov <peshkov@renderx.com>
Date: Tue May 03 2005 - 02:51:04 PDT

Hello Geoff,

This is a limitation of XEP and it isn't likely to change in the
nearest time.

Best regards,
Alexander Peshkov mailto:peshkov@renderx.com
RenderX

GL> I have a page with multiple columns: a block at the top of the page
GL> that spans all the columns, followed by other blocks which do not.

GL> Using XEP 4.3, the space-after of the first block (which spans all
GL> columns) and the space-before of the second (which does not) are both
GL> retained. Is this intentional? It was my understanding that the
GL> transition from span "all" to span "none" should generate a new
GL> reference area, and so discard the conditional spacing between the two
GL> areas.

GL> I will attach a simple XSL-FO file to illustrate...

GL> Thanks,
GL> Geoff

GL> Example:

GL> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="us-ascii"?>
GL> <fo:root xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format">

GL> <fo:layout-master-set>
GL> <fo:simple-page-master margin="30mm" master-name="front-page"
GL> page-height="297mm" page-width="210mm">
GL> <fo:region-body column-count="2" column-gap="7.5mm"
GL> margin-top="30mm"/>
GL> </fo:simple-page-master>
GL> </fo:layout-master-set>

GL> <fo:page-sequence master-reference="front-page">
GL> <fo:flow flow-name="xsl-region-body">
GL> <fo:block font-size="25.0pt" span="all" space-after="30pt">
GL> Flyer / Selling Sheet title
GL> </fo:block>
GL> <fo:block font-size="14pt" span="all" space-after="25pt">
GL> Headline text, Berkeley bold, 14pt. Hannibalem, annorum ferme
GL> novem, queril blandientem patri Hamil cari, ducereturcum, perfecto.
GL> </fo:block>
GL> <fo:block font-size="12pt" space-before="18pt">
GL> One day Ricky the magic Pixie went to visit Daisy Bumble in her
GL> tumbledown cottage. He found her in the bedroom. Roughly he grabbed
GL> her heavy shoulders pulling her down on to the bed and ripping off
GL> her...
GL> </fo:block>
GL> <fo:block font-size="12pt" space-before="18pt">
GL> 'Old Nick the Sea Captain was a rough tough jolly sort of
GL> fellow. He loved the life of the sea and he loved to hang out down
GL> by the pier where the men dressed as ladies...
GL> </fo:block>
GL> <fo:block font-size="12pt" space-before="18pt">
GL> Lorem ipsum ades dolor sit consec atetuer adipiscing elit, sed diam
GL> nonummy nibh euismod tincidunt ut laoreet dolore magna aliquam erat
GL> volutpat. Ut wisi enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exerci tation
GL> ullamcorper suscipit lobortis nisl ut aliquip ex ea commodo
GL> consequat duis autem vel eum iriure.
GL> </fo:block>
GL> <fo:block font-size="12pt" space-before="18pt">
GL> Penguins, yes, penguins. What relevance do penguins have to the
GL> furtherance of medical science? Well, strangely enough quite a lot,
GL> a major breakthrough, maybe. It was from such an unlikely beginning
GL> as an unwanted fungus accidentally growing on a sterile plate that
GL> Sir Alexander Fleming gave the world penicillin. James Watt watched
GL> an ordinary household kettle boiling and conceived the potentiality
GL> of steam power. Would Albert Einstein ever have hit upon the theory
GL> of relativity if he hadn't been clever? All these tremendous leaps
GL> forward have been taken in the dark. Would Rutherford ever have
GL> split the atom if he hadn't tried? Could Marconi have invented the
GL> radio if he hadn't by pure chance spent years working at the
GL> problem? Are these amazing breakthroughs ever achieved except by
GL> years and years of unremitting study? Of course not. What I said
GL> earlier about accidental discoveries must have been wrong.
GL> </fo:block>
GL> </fo:flow>
GL> </fo:page-sequence>

GL> </fo:root>

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